The ATACH Community of Practice resource repository aims to make resources which directly support delivery of the COP26 Health commitments easily accessible.
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Accelerating towards net zero: A guide for the Australian health system
This guide includes research and case studies from over 50 organisations and 135 health practitioners and policymakers across Australia,
Policy brief | Charting a Course to Net Zero Emissions for the European Healthcare Sector
Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe developed this policy brief to offer actionable recommendations to national and sub-national health systems, ministries of health, and other governmental organisations derived from developing...
Aga Khan Health Services' Sustainability Guidelines for Staff
These Sustainability Guidelines are an open-access resource promoting staff-wide engagement in sustainable healthcare through practical strategies, awareness, and innovation, while emphasizing key co-benefits of sustainability in healthcare.
Safe, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities: an overview
This guidance summarizes key information and strategies for creating safe, climate-resilient, and environmentally sustainable health care facilities. It provides definitions, actionable guidance, and resources for implementation by health care managers, practitioners, and national authorities.
Plant-powered Planet: Building a Healthy and Sustainable Food System
This evidence-based policy report highlights the importance of food system transformation for health and sustainability. It outlines key policy interventions to address interlinked challenges of food insecurity, environmental degradation, and health.
Health systems decarbonization: Lessons learned in building capacities in the sector
This brief presents key lessons learnt from Health Care Without Harm’s experience in greenhouse gas (GHG) national baselining, action planning initiatives, and capacity-building strategies. These lessons learnt can help shape future approaches for countries working to measure and reduce health care-related emissions and enhance sustainability.
Transition to sustainable plastic packaging for consumer healthcare products
This Position Paper from the Global Self Care Federation (GSCF) outlines the consumer healthcare industry's perspective on policies needed to enhance sustainable packaging for non-prescription medicines and food supplements. It...
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Sectoral Guidance
This Sectoral Guidance document is designed as a simplified sectoral guidance to supplement general GHG protocol guidance. It aims to assist self-care suppliers in developing a GHG reduction strategy by providing non-technical...
Smart Hospital Initiative: Toolkit
This toolkit provides health system administrators and policymakers a practical guide to strengthening structural and operational aspects and providing green technologies, in order to improve hospitals' resilience and reduce their carbon footprint.
Carbon Emissions Learning Lab
The Carbon Emissions Learning Lab (CELL) is an on-line platform to train users on decision making to achieve net zero health systems. It is a learning tool for leaders in the healthcare sector who are navigating net zero health systems. CELL provides users with a realistic, low-risk simulation, powered by real-world data, to analyze the implementation of carbon-reduction initiatives in hospital systems. CELL empowers users to become climate leaders through informed, sustainability-oriented decision-making.
Target setting for low carbon sustainable health systems
This document contains key considerations and a practical checklist to assist health system administrators and policy makers in setting credible and ambitious decarbonization targets for the health sector.
Red and processed meat in the context of health and the environment: many shades of red and green. Information brief
This document synthesizes the evidence on the role of red and processed meat production and consumption in health and environmental outcomes and in different social and political contexts. It also provides a brief overview of potential interventions to optimize health/environmental outcomes.
Aga Khan Development Network’s Tool to Calculate Health Operations Emissions
This Excel tool calculates the GHG emissions of health care facility operations. It converts readily available data from health facilities and community-based programs into instant carbon read-outs using accurate and up-to-date carbon conversion factors. Downloads include: Excel tool and guidance document in both English and French.
Climate Impact Checkup Tool and guidance
The Climate Impact Checkup tool can be used to assess GHG emissions baselines of health care facilities using facility-level data on energy, transport, waste, and gases to then calculate footprints based on national or local emissions factors. Downloads include: Excel tool, two training videos, guidance document and slides for users and trainers.
Designing a Net Zero Roadmap for Healthcare: Technical methodology and Guidance
This resource describes a methodology, which includes guiding principles and methods, for a national or regional health authority to measure their health systems emissions and develop a decarbonisation roadmap that is compatible with the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Greener NHS: Delivering a ‘Net Zero’ National Health Service
This report outlines a strategy of the National Health Service to become ‘carbon net zero’ by 2040 for the emissions it controls directly and 2045 for the emissions it can influence. It is a good example for building low carbon sustainable health systems.
Global Roadmap for Health Care Decarbonization
This document establishes a global vision for health systems to work toward zero emissions while advancing climate resilience and global health goals. It also provides country specific information for 68 nations to begin to develop their own analysis and national road maps.
Sustainable Procurement Index for Health (SPIH)
The SPIH is an excel tool to aid the procurement process by assessing greenhouse gas emissions and other sustainability indicators of suppliers and their products. The tool consists of set of questions and a scoring approach and comes with a user’s guide and webinar recording.
Health Care Climate Footprint
This report provides a global estimate of health systems’ greenhouse gas emissions (with 43 country specific estimates) and examines the contributions of specific elements, such as anesthetic gases. It identifies research gaps to further understand the sector’s emissions and outlines multi-level policy recommendations for climate action.
The HealthcareLCA Database of Environmental Assessments within Healthcare
HealthcareLCA is a repository of healthcare-related life cycle assessments (LCA), which include individual pharmaceuticals and health systems. The LCAs evaluate global warming potential, and other environmental and health impact categories. This is a useful resource to guide the alignment of procurement with a low-carbon pathway.